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Antoine Soetewey
I am a PhD student in statistics at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium, within the Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA). My research interests focus on bio-statistical procedures applied to cancer patients.
In parallel with my doctoral thesis, I am teaching assistant for several courses in statistics and probability at bachelor and master’s level and I provide trainings and workshops in statistics and R programming for UCLouvain’s technology platform for Support in Methodology and Statistical Computing (SMCS).
Education
PhD Student in Statistics
Université catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2023 - 2017
- Thesis: Life and Health Actuarial Pricing: a Biostatistics Approach (supervisors: Prof. Catherine Legrand and Prof. Michel Denuit)
MSc in Econometrics and Operations Research
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
2016 - 2015
- Specialisation in Econometrics
- Thesis: Combining Professional and Survey Forecasts for Macroeconomic Data (supervisor: Prof. Nalan Basturk) | ISBN: 978-3659660801
Selected Positions
Data Journalist - Graphics Department
New York Times
New York, New York
2016
- Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
- Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.
Selected Writing
Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2019
- Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
- Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
- Reached top of HackerNews.
The Traveling Metallurgist
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2017
- Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
- Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.
The Great Student Migration
The New York Times
N/A
2016
- Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.